Bacon, Francis, Sylva sylvarum : or, a natural history in ten centuries

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            <s xml:id="echoid-s11564" xml:space="preserve">Next unto warm Bloud, things alike in ſubstance to the Body of a man are nutritives:
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0328-01" xlink:href="note-0328-01a" xml:space="preserve">17.</note>
            fat fleſhes of Oxen, Swine, Dear; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11566" xml:space="preserve">Oiſters amongſt Fiſhes; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11567" xml:space="preserve">Milk, Butter, Yolks of
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            Eggs, Flower of Wheat, ſweet wine, either Sugred, or before it be fined.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s11569" xml:space="preserve">Such things as we would have mixed to make impreſſion are, inſtead of all, Salts,
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            eſpecially Bay-ſalt; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11570" xml:space="preserve">alſo Wine (when it is full of Spirit) maketh entrance, and is an
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            excellent Convoy.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s11572" xml:space="preserve">Aſtringents of that kind which we deſcribed, namely, unctuous and comfortable
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0328-03" xlink:href="note-0328-03a" xml:space="preserve">19.</note>
            things, are Saffron, Maſtick, Myrrhe, and Myrtle berries.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s11574" xml:space="preserve">Of theſe parts, in our judgment, may very well be made ſuch a Bath as we deſign:
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0328-04" xlink:href="note-0328-04a" xml:space="preserve">20.</note>
            Phyſicians and Poſterity will find out better things hereafter.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s11577" xml:space="preserve">But the Operation will be much better and more powerful, if ſuch a Bath as we have
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            propounded (which we hold to be the principal matter) be attended with a fourfold
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            Courſe and Order.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s11579" xml:space="preserve">Firſt, that there go before the Bath a Frication of the body, and an Anointing with
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0328-06" xlink:href="note-0328-06a" xml:space="preserve">22.</note>
            Oil, with ſome thickning ſubſtance, that the virtue and moiſtning heat of the Bath may
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            pierce the body, and not the watry part of the Liquor. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11580" xml:space="preserve">Then let the Bath follow, for
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            the ſpace of ſome two hours. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11581" xml:space="preserve">After the Bath, let the body be Emplaiſtered with Ma-
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            ſtick, Myrrhe, Tragacanth, Diapalma, and Saffron; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11582" xml:space="preserve">that the perſpiration of the body
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            may (as much as is poſſible) be inhibited, till the ſupple matter be by degrees turned
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            into ſolid: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11583" xml:space="preserve">This to be continued for the ſpace of twenty four hours or more. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11584" xml:space="preserve">Laſtly,
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            the Emplaiſtering being removed, let there be an anointing with Oil mixed with salt and
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            Saffron. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11585" xml:space="preserve">And let this Bath, together with the Emplaistering and Unction, (as before)
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            be renewed every fifth day. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11586" xml:space="preserve">This Malaciſſation or ſuppling of the body be continued
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            for one whole month.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s11588" xml:space="preserve">Alſo during the time of this Malaciſſation, we hold it uſeful and proper, and accord-
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            ing to our intention, that men nouriſh their bodies well, and keep out of the cold air,
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            and drink nothing but warm drink.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s11590" xml:space="preserve">Now this is one of thoſe things (as we warned in general in the beginning)
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            whereof we have made no trial by Experiment, but onely ſet it down out of our
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            aiming and levelling at the end: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11591" xml:space="preserve">For having ſet up the Mark, we deliver the Light to
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            others.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s11593" xml:space="preserve">Neither ought the warmths and cheriſhings of living bodies to be neglected. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11594" xml:space="preserve">Ficinus
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            ſaith, and that ſerioufly enough, That the laying of the young Maid in David’s boſom
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            was wholſome ſor him, but it came too late. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11595" xml:space="preserve">He ſhould alſo have added, That the young
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            Maid, after the manner of the Perſian Virgins, ought to have been anointed with Myrrhe,
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            and ſuch like, not for deliciouſneſs, but to increaſe the virtue of this cheriſhing by a
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            living body.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s11597" xml:space="preserve">Barbaroſſa, in his extream old age, by the advice of a Phyſician, a Jew, did con-
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            tinually apply young Boys to his ſtomach and belly, for warmth and cheriſhing: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11598" xml:space="preserve">alſo
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            ſome old men lay Whelps (creatures of the hotteſt kind) cloſe to their ſtomachs every
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            night.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s11600" xml:space="preserve">There hath gone a report, almoſt undoubted, and that under ſeveral names, of cer-
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            tain men that had great Noſes, who being weary of the deriſion of people, have cut
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            ofſ the bunches or hillocks of their Noſes, and then making a wide gaſh in their arms,
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            have held their Noſes in the place for a certain time, and ſo brought forth fair and come-
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            ly Noſes: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s11601" xml:space="preserve">which if it be true, it ſhews plainly the conſent of fleſh unto fleſh, eſpecially
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            in live fleſhes.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s11603" xml:space="preserve">Touching the particular Inteneration of the principal Bowels, the Stomach, Lungs, Liver,
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            Heart, Brain, Marrow of the Back-bone, Guts, Reins, Gall, Veins, Arteries, Nerves, Carti-
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            Lages, Bones, the Inquiſition and Direction would be too long ſeeing we now ſet not forth
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            a Practick, but certain Indications to the Practick.</s>
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